Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-253) and index

Introduction: Victorian England -- QUEEN VICTORIA AND THE VICTORIAN PERIOD: The reign of Queen Victoria / Asa Briggs -- An age of transition / Walter E. Houghton -- The rise of a strong middle class / Hilary Evans and Mary Evans -- INVENTIONS, TECHNOLOGY, AND MEDICINE: New technologies fostered the industrial revolution / T. Walter Wallbank and Alastair M. Taylor -- Late Nineteenth-Century inventions / Alan Bott -- The Great Exhibition / Margaret Drabble -- Health and Medicine / Sally Mitchell -- DAILY LIFE IN VICTORIAN ENGLAND: Victorian farmers and farm laborers / W. J. Reader -- The transition from agriculture to industry / George Macaulay Trevelyan -- Child labor in the cotton mills / Anonymous -- Life in Victorian prisons / Philip Priestley -- IDEAS THAT CHANGED VALUES, VIEWS, AND EVENTS: Bentham's utilitarianism / Richard D. Altick -- The Reform Acts expanded democracy / Norman Gash -- The theory of evolution challenged creationism / David Newsome -- Darwin contributed to religious doubt / Noel Annan -- SOCIAL AND CULTURAL CHANGES: Educating women and the working class / William S. Knickerbocker -- Victorian women expected to be idle and ignorant / Charles Petrie -- Victorian reading habits reflected popular tastes / John W. Dodds -- Pictorial publications created a mass culture / Patricia Anderson -- Double standards in middle-class sexual morality / J. B. Priestley

A collection of essays that discuss the literary, cultural, technical, political, and social ramifications of the Victorian era

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